गुप्त [ gupta ] [ guptá ] m. f. n. protected , guarded , preserved Lit. AV.

  hidden , concealed , kept secret , secret Lit. Bhartṛ. Lit. Pañcat. Lit. Kathās. ( with [ daṇḍa ] , a secret fine , fine secretly imposed or exacted Lit. Hit. ; cf. [gūḍha-d ] )

  = [ saṃgata ] (? joined , combined) Lit. W.

  [ guptam ] ind. ( in comp. [ a- ] Lit. Hcat.) secretly , privately Lit. Kathās.

  ( [ su- ] ) Lit. Pañcat. iv

  [ gupte ] ind. in a hidden place Lit. Kathās. lxxv

  [ gupta ] m. ( Lit. Pāṇ. 6-1 , 205 Lit. Kāś.) N. of several men belonging to the Vaiśya caste ( Lit. PārGṛ. i , 17 ; cf. Lit. RTL. p.358) , especially of the founder of the renowned Gupta dynasty in which the names of the sovereigns generally end in [ gupta ] ( cf. [ candra- ] , [ samudra- ] , [ skanda- ] ; [ gupta ] is also often found ifc. in names of the Vaiśya class)

  [ guptā ] f. a married woman who withdraws from her lover's endearments Lit. L.

  [ gupta ] m. Mucuna pruritus Lit. Suśr. iv , 26 , 33 ; vi , 46 , 21 ( [ °pta ] )

  N. of a woman Lit. Pāṇ. 4-1 , 121 Sch. ( [ gopā ] Lit. Kāś.)

  of a Śākya princess Lit. Buddh.

  m. (also) the era named after the Gupta dynasty (beginning Lit. A.D. 319 ; hence the Gupta year 165 corresponds to Lit. A.D. 484-85 ; in later times the years are called [ valabhī ] - [ saṃvat ] from the rulers of Valabhi, and the era is spoken of as the Gupta-Valabhi era).